From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Samuel Wales Subject: Re: Re: Comma-protection of Org blocks Date: Sun, 27 Mar 2011 16:43:34 -0700 Message-ID: References: <19834758-735D-4ADE-AA66-8ACF44F2CE46@gmail.com> <87bp105nva.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> <4D8BB89A.70908@gmail.com> <874o6rwjox.fsf@pinto.chemeng.ucl.ac.uk> <4D8CC930.9050201@gmail.com> <871v1v9f5m.fsf_-_@ucl.ac.uk> <80vcz6ykys.fsf_-_@somewhere.org> <87ipv6jmgz.fsf@Rainer.invalid> <21481.1301259100@alphaville.dokosmarshall.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Return-path: Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=57287 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Q3zcV-0007sM-EB for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sun, 27 Mar 2011 19:43:45 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q3zcP-0003mF-7g for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sun, 27 Mar 2011 19:43:38 -0400 Received: from mail-wy0-f169.google.com ([74.125.82.169]:59067) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q3zcP-0003m3-1R for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sun, 27 Mar 2011 19:43:37 -0400 Received: by wyf19 with SMTP id 19so2840041wyf.0 for ; Sun, 27 Mar 2011 16:43:36 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <21481.1301259100@alphaville.dokosmarshall.org> List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: nicholas.dokos@hp.com Cc: Achim Gratz , emacs-orgmode@gnu.org I agree that this is important. For new features, Extensible Syntax (capitalized because it is a specific proposal for a concrete universal syntax) allows you to use the same quoting, escaping, nesting, exporting, etc. solutions that were arrived at as a one-time fundamental mechanism. This reduces the risk of adding quoting, escaping, nesting, exporting, etc. issues when you add new features to (asymptotically at least -- it needs writing) zero. I only mention it again to point out that Extensible Syntax was motivated by reducing parsing risk, including the issues discussed in this thread. Samuel -- The Kafka Pandemic: http://thekafkapandemic.blogspot.com/2010/12/welcome-to-kafka-pandemic-two-forces_9182.html I support the Whittemore-Peterson Institute (WPI) === I want to see the original (pre-hold) Lo et al. 2010 NIH/FDA/Harvard MRV paper.